Her current body of paintings establishes a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. By applying abstraction, she creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude toward the personal experience can be found. The work is at times aloof and cool and neutral imagery is used, yet it remains a reference for the feminine, the gentle, and the sublime.
“When I paint I feel the love of art history comes into my work; the hours I have spent in the Rothko room at the Tate profoundly influenced me. As I sat there I felt uplifted in the same way I feel when I stood in a cathedral or at a wide open landscape.
I try and bring this into my work. In a way I want my work to give something to the viewer…a sense of calm, or a sense of belonging…sometimes of a dark, warm enveloping.”
Date:
February 26, 2023